Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 59
It was a little over twelve years after the first pages were prepared before the complete Bible was in print.
Who acts: Bible, complete Bible · What happens: be, prepare · To what, where: first pages
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bible, complete Bible), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 little | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 little | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 little | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 prepared | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pages | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 pages | amod |
| 11 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 prepared | aux:pass |
| 13 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 years | advcl |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 print | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Bible | det |
| 16 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Bible | amod |
| 17 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 print | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 print | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 print | case |
| 20 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prepared | obl | ||
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 little | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Bible | year | little property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prepare | past · passive | the first pages | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the complete Bible | before print | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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